Quality assessment in high-acuity surgery: Volume and mortality are not enough

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 371-379

  Vollmer Jr , Charles M ^a,b   Pratt, Wande ^a   Vanounou, Tsafrir ^a   Maithel, Shishir K ^a   Callery, Mark P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PANCREAS DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

COST SAVINGS; EMERGENCIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DISEASES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247884454     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.4.371     Document Type: Article

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